Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...A.D. nomenclature. It’s the latest in a list of bills focused on prioritizing Christianity in public school classrooms. Academics..."

May 23, 2025 News Feature

Sitting Down With Your Senator

Sarah Eckhardt goes deep on democracy, womanhood, and our era

"...also as people who should have a choice with abortion? Because there are two different parts that we talked..."

April 11, 2025 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

MAGA Moms and the Republican Resistance to School Vouchers

Make education public again

"...conservative activist. She believes what conservatives believe. She’s anti-immigration, anti-abortion, pro-gun. And yes, she supports Donald Trump...."

March 21, 2025 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...First Abortion Arrests in Texas: After a monthlong attorney general investigation,..."

March 21, 2025 News Feature

Allowing Doctors and Delivery Drivers to Stop Providing Birth Control

New framework makes it easier to refuse to offer medical care

"...Since the Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to abortion in 2022, Americans concerned with reproductive freedom have been..."

Feb. 14, 2025 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Texas’ New Data on Pregnancy Deaths Is Old. As in, Pre-Abortion-Ban Old

New legislation seeks to streamline data gathering process

"...big problem with the report. The data is old. Pre-abortion-ban old. It looks at deaths in 2020, before Texas’..."

Jan. 24, 2025 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

SXSW 2025 Heads to The Studio With Seth Rogen

New films from Ben Affleck, Nicole Kidman, Nic Cage added to fest

"...busboy Willard, this Fresno greasy spoon must overcome unpaid bills and a once-in-a-lifetime volcanic eruption. Cast: Mary Neely, DeMorge..."

Jan. 22, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Texas Lege Preview: Will Abortion Laws Budge?

Texas continued its near-total ban last session. Is 2025 different?

"...Last session ended in a stalemate on abortion. In Texas, where residents face the most extreme abortion..."

Jan. 10, 2025 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...It’s Starting Again: Texas lawmakers filed more than 1,400 bills on Tuesday, the first day of open filing for..."

Nov. 15, 2024 News Feature

In Politics to Win, Again and Again

Introducing the passionate people who get our local politicians elected

"...for Jacob Aronowitz, the founder of Collective Campaigns, which bills itself as the first political consultancy firm in the..."

Sept. 13, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Opinion: The Right Wing Is Attacking Queer & Trans Americans to Distract From Their Bigger Agenda

Congressman Greg Casar on taking the fight for LGBTQIA+ Texans to the national level

"...that my job isn’t just to write and sponsor bills on Capitol Hill. My job is also to march..."

June 21, 2024 Column by Greg Casar

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...for a Life: While IVF is in limbo, when abortion is and isn’t legal is still unclear in prohibition..."

March 1, 2024 News Feature

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...Greg Abbott touted as some of the most conservative bills in recent history, Phelan isn’t far-right enough for some..."

Feb. 9, 2024 News Feature

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...ACLU Launches Abortion Advocacy Network: The ACLU of Texas announced this week..."

Nov. 3, 2023 News Feature

Abbott Signed Medicaid for New Moms Into Law, but It Might Not Happen Anyway

Gears of bureaucracy turn slowly (and sometimes not at all)

"...Democrats wanted to increase abortion access in cases of rape and dangerous pregnancy complications...."

Sept. 1, 2023 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Texas’ New Law Seeks to Kick Out Elected Prosecutors (Especially Ours)

"Rogue prosecutor" law takes effect Sept. 1

"...– is a straightforward push for a crackdown on abortion, in direct response to some of Texas' most prominent..."

July 7, 2023 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Will Expanding SCOTUS Help Fix Post-Roe Texas?

Casar takes on the Supremes

"...the Dobbs decision, stripping away a constitutional right to abortion. Also, a lack of accountability for the unelected justices..."

June 16, 2023 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...Abbott, Persona Non Grata: Gov. Greg Abbott signed eight bills into law on June 6, naming public safety as..."

June 9, 2023 News Feature

Silver Linings at the Lege: Texas Moms to Get 12 Months of Free Health Care

And other good news from this legislative session

"...to Medicaid coverage for 12 months after childbirth. Several bills on the governor's desk (and one already signed into..."

June 2, 2023 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Public Notice: Your Government at Work

The Texas Legislature and “the disturbing category of ‘Who Knows?’”

"...a state-level ban on gay marriage, the most extreme abortion ban in the nation with no exceptions for victims..."

May 26, 2023 News Column by Nick Barbaro

What State Police Patrolling Austin Means

Send in the troopers

"...serious conversations about public safety." The legislation, like similar bills in past sessions, went nowhere...."

March 31, 2023 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...has a new challenge: Companion Texas House and Senate bills would force the Austin Transit Partnership to hold a..."

March 17, 2023 News Feature

Public Notice: What’s Wrong With Mineola?

Should we follow the model zoning in Sen. Bryan Hughes’ hometown?

"...these pages for his staunch opposition to gay rights, abortion rights, voting rights, nudist rights(!) … well, pretty much..."

Feb. 10, 2023 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Bill of the Week: Republicans Tell D.A.s to Bang Cymbals Together Like Animatronic Monkeys

New bill throws prosecutorial discretion out the window

"...announcing they will refuse to prosecute doctors who provide abortions, parents who get transgender care for their kids, and..."

Feb. 3, 2023 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Texas Lege Preview: These Bills Deserve to Die

Four of the worst measures filed (so far) for the 88th

"...Texas reps have filed a combined 1,635 bills so far this session, and many oughta die. These..."

Jan. 13, 2023 News Feature by the News Staff

The Lege Opens, Here's What Happens Next

Not all of the bills are bad! Our analysis of the just-begun 88th Texas Legislature.

"...for progressives in most legislative sessions is to kill bills. Then, it was "election integrity" voter-suppression bullshit; now, it..."

Jan. 13, 2023 News Feature by the News Staff

Texas Lege Preview: The Only Exception in Post-Roe Texas

Legislators wrangle over birth control, rape, and travel

"...After the Lege enacted an abortion ban last session that made providing an abortion a..."

Jan. 13, 2023 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Rep. Lulu Flores, HD 51

“I’m gonna stand the line on rights for women and children and gay and trans folks.”

"...She said she'll be filing bills as soon as her staff are settled in. In..."

Jan. 6, 2023 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Rep. Donna Howard, HD 48

“... More strategic than knee-jerk property tax relief”

"...school property taxes (the largest component of local tax bills), while also increasing teacher pay...."

Jan. 6, 2023 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Sen. Sarah Eckhardt, SD 14

“I get that property tax is painful, [but] we’re never going to have a surplus like this again”

"...Sarah Eckhardt has proudly authored and signed on to bills to decriminalize abortion as well as marijuana, expand Medicaid,..."

Jan. 6, 2023 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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